Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-24
TWO MEN SHOT.
A Lively Fight In a Down Town Saloon in
Which Several Took a Hand.

A Lively Fight In a Down Town Saloon in
Which Several Took Hand.
There was free fight in Bowen's
saloon, Third ward resort on the corner
of Calhoun and Fifteenth streets, last
night that was tolerablY lively while it
lasted. Details were hard to obtain,
from the obscurity in which the
origin of the melee was wrapped,
and the number of the principals. II
seems, however, that there were some
eight or ten men within the saloon, all
serene as May morning, and no casus
belli in sight. Among the company was
one j. H. Garrett, Canadian, of late a
gentleman Of leisure, and a stranger with
whom the first named was conversing.
James and George McGinnis, well-known
in police circles, railway engineer
named Jones, and q young man named
Gus Griffin, were also there. The latter
says that he heard Garrett say something
to the stranger about being the better
man, and presently Garrett pulled pis-
tol and began toying with it in a way cal
culated to make the spectators nervous.
At this point somebody yelled out:
/ CHEFS GOING TO SHOOT"
and pandemonium (they retail pande-
monium at nickel q pan in the
Third ward,) seemed turned loose.
The first thing the amisble crowd did was
to run the stranger aforesaid out of the
room, after some gentleman had consid-
erately whacked him over the head with
chair twice, each whack bringing the
blood. Then he was pursued by the mob,
but outran them. Next, the engineer,
Jones, who had said and done nothing,
I Ii.
place (as q reward for his quiet
conduct. The party chasing him
pelted him with stones, and when he took
refuge in the Clark house hard by, they
stoned the house. They had doubtless
been reading OF the valiant exploits of
the Toronto OrangemeH. Directly
Jones, whose Irish was up, returned to
the saloon aud asked for the man who
had rocked him. He was cheerfully in
formed by GARRETT hat he'd better get out
or he'd get done up, and he proceeded to
demonstrate his proposition by turn
ing his pistol on the rash
engineer, firing at him twice. The third
shot he aimed at young Griffin, whom the
"subsequent proceedings" interested no
more As Jones sgsin retreated into the
street some other parties
but he escaped the leaden hail and, think
| ing it entirely too tough crowd to lin
ger with longer, babe them adieu for the
night.
When the results of the battle were
summed up it appeared that two of the
| flying bullets had taken effect. The list
of the wounded embraced jim McGinnis,
shot in the foot lball extracted later,
and Billie Scott, bartender, slight shot
| in the left thigh. Neither of the men are
badly hurt. The shooting appeared
to be so utterly illogical and
promisCuous that no one could
tell which one Of the party wounded the
men mentioned, and the shooting of Nc
Ginnis, at least, was accidental.
TWO OF THEM ARRESTED.
| Officer Ben Bell, who was first on the
scene, arrested George McGtnnis from
whom he took pistol, one barrel of
which had been discharged. Officers
Rushing and Richards came up
and took in the principal actor,
Garrett, whom they relieved of double
sction al" Garrett and McGinnis
were plsced in the refrigerator for future
reference, and will be called on this
morning to explain what they mean By
inaugursting hostiIities in times Of peace.